This is off topic in this thread, so I don't want to go into this deeper...
You can argue in the case of dividends that you are holding the stock for the dividends (this is more of an old school approach), so you don't necessary need the price to go up. but if the company doesn't pay jackshit, how are you going to make money of the stock unless it goes higher?
I can actually take it further and say: a stock that pays no dividend and the company has no realistic business model to make profits is nothing but a ponzi scheme...(the bigger fool)
What does that have to do with the difference between a company that pays dividends, vs. a company that does not? There is no difference!
You can argue in the case of dividends that you are holding the stock for the dividends (this is more of an old school approach), so you don't necessary need the price to go up. but if the company doesn't pay jackshit, how are you going to make money of the stock unless it goes higher?
I can actually take it further and say: a stock that pays no dividend and the company has no realistic business model to make profits is nothing but a ponzi scheme...(the bigger fool)